Ok so I made a 1 year retirement visa from a agent in Pattaya. I don't live in Pattaya and just had the police come check on me as they say they have to check every foreigner in the area. I want to know if my visa will be valid or what I have to do. 

Presumably you mean an extension rather than a visa.

 

I know several people in Pattaya who had their retirement extension "arranged" by an agent. As far as I know all those extensions are legal and valid, and the '"arrangement" was limited to introducing some flexibility into the cash deposit requirements.

Edited August 16, 20169 yr by KittenKong

You have an extension of stay not a visa.It will remain valid until it expires and does not matter where you live now.

Since you have to do 90 day reports you need to formally change your address at the assigned immigration office for where you are living to do them.

Some immigration offices have given people a hard time about doing the 90 day  reports when they see an extension done elsewhere. I can recall a report of one office refusing to accept them even after the address was changed.

It would be helpful if you could attach a scan of the relevant sticker or stamp in your passport, so that we can see what you are talking about.

 

Unless the BIB who visited you raised their eyebrows a mile high after examining your passport, I would have thought it unlikely that you would have anything to worry about in the short term at least.

 

That said, so-called "agents" have been known to take their clients' passports around to mates of theirs who are experts in forgery, rather than to the local immigration office, for the necessary stamps to be affixed. So I would strongly advise you to take extreme care should you ever be minded to use an "agent's" services again in future.

The visa is legal it's just that I never had the funds and the agent did it. As for the 90 day reporting my friend does it for me in Jom Tien.

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10 hours ago, Robchat said:

The visa is legal it's just that I never had the funds and the agent did it.

 

That is precisely the situation I described. I suspect that a very large number of people here end up doing this.